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Committee clarifies creative-writing electives; keeps flexible local implementation
Summary
The SRC revised wording for creative-writing electives to reduce prescriptive assessment language, emphasize flexibility, and retain local discretion for course content and publishing options; members agreed to collect supporting language and glossary items for later review.
The Tennessee State Board of Education's English Language Arts Standards Recommendation Committee revised and clarified the elective creative-writing course standards during a virtual session in October 2025, emphasizing flexibility for local implementation and simplifying overly prescriptive language.
Committee members reviewed the creative-writing course description and a sequence of standards (CW 1–CW 16). They agreed the course should emphasize imaginative writing across fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction and accepted language that the course “focus[es] on the imaginative aspects of writing fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction” and that teachers may use lectures, workshops and exemplars to…
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